Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Afghanistan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Mars to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joe Finger,
The Evens,
KRS-One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fugazi,
John Cale,
Nas,
Surgeon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
China Crisis,
The Doors,
Crooked Eye,
Chrome,
Al Stewart,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Organ,
Kurtis Blow,
The Residents,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra,
Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Peter & Gordon,
Ohio Players,
Model 500,
Moby Grape,
Dark Day,
Lakeside,
Danielle Patucci,
Eric Copeland,
Yaz,
Bill Near,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sandy B,
the Fania All-Stars,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The United States of America,
Parry Music,
Gang Gang Dance,
Shoche,
Infiniti,
Flash Fearless,
Angry Samoans,
Stiv Bators,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joey Negro,
Crash Course in Science,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Trojans,
Roxy Music,
Connie Case,
Intrusion,
Deadbeat,
Camberwell Now,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dirtbombs,
Duran Duran,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.